In full COP27, this action is part of an international campaign called “Make Them Pay” (“Make them pay”). It carries three demands: “ban private jets, tax big thieves, and make the ultra-rich polluters pay”.
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They denounce the environmental consequences of private jets. Thirty scientists protested Thursday, November 10, in front of the headquarters of Dassault Aviation in Paris as part of a coordinated action in ten countries.
“Dassault is the world’s third largest manufacturer of private jets and represents 30% of the business aviation sector” said Elie Oriol, biologist at ENS, as noted by a franceinfo journalist on the spot. To denounce “the symbol of climatic inequalities” what private jets represent, scientists have launched paper airplanes across the grid of the French multinational.
As such, private jets are “a symbol of climatic inequalities”, he continues. With private jets on one side and paper airplanes on the other… pic.twitter.com/Pzy97hCHGX
— Marie-Ad’ Scigacz (@Marie_ad) November 10, 2022
In full COP27, this action is part of an international campaign called “Make Them Pay” (“Make them pay”). It has three demands: “ban private jets, tax big thieves, and make the ultra-rich polluters pay”explain the “scientists in rebellion” in a press release.
The action of the day therefore aims to demand “the ban on private jets, the taxation of big thieves” and to “make the big polluters pay”. pic.twitter.com/uAZDXWOHUI
— Marie-Ad’ Scigacz (@Marie_ad) November 10, 2022
Faced with the climate emergency, many scientists decide to engage in actions of civil disobedience to protest against the lack of action.